[HPforGrownups] Re: OoP: I'll do it: In defense of James

[pjuel13 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 62654

In a message dated 6/23/03 11:37:14 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
jenserai at hotmail.com writes:

> >So James didn't like oddballs, and Snape didn't like Muggle-borns. I'm not 
> 
> >sure Snape's apparent racism was anything more than a reaction to the 
> >humiliation he was feeling at the moment, but I'll admit it's a possiblity 
> >and leave it for now.

No, James didn't like Snape. Having a problem with "Oddball Snape" the 
dark-arts devotee (and from what I can see there's a vast great gulf between 
"dark-arts" and a gothy interest in the occult), killer and/or hexer of flies to pass 
the time (pg 592 US edition), and ready user of the wizard word n-bomb 
"Mudblood" does not equal having a problem with other people who might not fit in in 
other ways. The one does not extrapolate to the many. 
> 
> >The point I want to make about this scenario is that I hardly think the 
> Lily 
> >would be defending Snape if he went around hexing muggle-borns as James did 
> 
> >with outcasts.
> 
> 
I'm not sure there's enough information in the passage to say this. It is 
interesting that she says "You're as bad a he is" after James demands Snape 
apologize to her. Would she have said Snape was bad if he wasn't? 

-Stripedog, who was brutally bullied through school and yet is willing to 
separate the 15 year old boys from what they grew into as men. 


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